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Beyond Bakelite: Leo Baekeland and the Business of Science and Invention
"I just want to say one word to you. Just one word. . . . Plastics." This line from the film The Graduate has come to symbolize the hubris, promise, and disappointment embodied in one of the world's most ubiquitous materials. At present, plastics are cheap, widely used, and durable. But that durability means that plastics persist in the environment for decades. Images of swaths of the ocean or …
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Curious Minds: The Power of Connection
"In Curious Minds: The Power of Connection, the authors explore what curiosity is and what it can do. Traipsing across the fields of philosophy and neuroscience, literature and network science, they discover that current definitions of curiosity are remarkably limited. Rather than think of curiosity as a drive to acquire new bits of information, they argue that curiosity is a practice of connec…
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The Evolution of the Sensitive Soul: Learning and the Origins of Consciousness
A new theory about the origins of consciousness that finds learning to be the driving force in the evolutionary transition to basic consciousness. What marked the evolutionary transition from organisms that lacked consciousness to those with consciousness—to minimal subjective experiencing, or, as Aristotle described it, “the sensitive soul”? In this book, Simona Ginsburg and Eva Jablo…
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The Digital Mind: How Science Is Redefining Humanity
How developments in science and technology may enable the emergence of purely digital minds -- intelligent machines equal to or greater in power than the human brain.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (xxii, 317 pages) :illustrations.
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The Language of Thought: A New Philosophical Direction
This title presents a philosophical refashioning of the language of thought approach to the nature of the mind, and the related computational theory of mind.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295833
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- 1 online resource (xii, 259 pages) :illustrations
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The Microelectronics revolution :
"The Microelectronics Revolution is a comprehensive guide to the silicon chip revolution and its impact on society. The distinguished contributors to this volume explain in turn the origins and nature of microelectronics, the characteristics of the burgeoning microchip industry and the increasing use of microprocessors in everyday products.The book details the impact of this new technology on s…
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Empathy: From Bench to Bedside
Recent work on empathy theory, research, and applications, by scholars from disciplines ranging from neuroscience to psychoanalysis.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298612
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- 1 online resource (ix, 324 pages) :illustrations.
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Blind Vision: The Neuroscience of Visual Impairment
Can a blind person see? The very idea seems paradoxical. Here the authors examine the effects of blindness and other types of visual deficit on the development and functioning of the human cognitive system.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Mind and mechanism
"In Mind and Mechanism, Drew McDermott takes a computational approach to the mind-body problem (how it is that a purely physical entity, the brain, can have experiences). He begins by demonstrating the falseness of dualist approaches, which separate the physical and mental realms. He then surveys what has been accomplished in artificial intelligence, clearly differentiating what we know how to …
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Moral psychology
Groundbreaking essays and commentaries on the ways that recent findings in psychology and neuroscience illuminate virtue and character and related issues in philosophy.Philosophers have discussed virtue and character since Socrates, but many traditional views have been challenged by recent findings in psychology and neuroscience. This fifth volume of Moral Psychology grows out of this new wave …
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